The Fukuoka City Public Library Movie Hall Ciné-Là Film Program Schedule December 2015
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THE FUKUOKA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY MOVIE HALL CINÉ-LÀ FILM PROGRAM SCHEDULE DECEMBER 2015 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ARCHIVE COLLECTION VOL.9 ACTION FILM ADVENTURE WITH YASUAKI KURATA December 2-6 No English subtitles ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SRI LANKA FILMS CENTERED ON LESTER JAMES AND SUMITRA PERIES December 9-26 English subtitles ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our library and theater will be closed for the New Year Holidays from December 28-January 4 ENGLISH HOME PAGE INFORMATION THE FUKUOKA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY http://www.cinela.com/english/ This schedule can be downloaded from: http://www.cinela.com/english/newsandevents.htm http://www.cinela.com/english/filmarc.htm ARCHIVE COLLECTION VOL.9 Action Film Adventure with Yasuaki Kurata A collection of films starring action film star Yasuaki Kurata. December 2-6 No English subtitles TATAKAE! DRAGON VOL.1 Director: Toru Toyama, Shozo Tamura Cast: Yasuaki Kurata, Bruce Liang, Makoto Akatsuka 1974 / Digital / Color / 80 min./ No English subtitles STORY: 4 episodes from the 1974 TV series pitting a karate expert as the protagonist who goes against an underworld syndicate. (Episodes 1-4) TATAKAE! DRAGON VOL.2 Director: Toru Toyama Cast: Yasuaki Kurata, Fusayo Fukawa, Noboru Mitani / Digital / Color / 80 min./ No English subtitles STORY: 4 episodes from the 1974 TV series pitting a karate expert as the protagonist who goes against an underworld syndicate. (Episodes 14, 15, 25, 26) FINAL FIGHT SAIGO NO ICHIGEKI Director: Shuji Goto Cast: Yasuaki Kurata, Yang Si, Simon Yam 1989 / 35mm/ Color / 96min./ No English subtitles STORY: A former Asian karate champion struggles as he makes a comeback. A big hit that was shown in 33 countries. YELLOW DRAGON Director: Tsutomu Kashima Cast: Yasuaki Kurata, Shoei, Maki Miyamoto 2002 / 35mm/ Color / 98min./ No English subtitles STORY: “Yellow Dragon”, a powerful drug, greatly enhances the fighting instinct but is destructively poisonous. A girl who lives in solitude has the antibody for the drug but because she does, she is the target of the underworld. A man tries to protect her… RED TEARS Director: Takanori Tsujimoto Cast: Yasuaki Kurata, Natsuki Kato, Yuma Ishigaki 2011 / 35mm/ Color / 87min./ No English subtitles STORY: A beautiful girl comes from a family of vampires. A young police detective falls in love with her but another police detective has a driven passion to battle vampires… Sri Lanka Films Centered On Lester James and Sumitra Peries An English subtitled collection of Sri Lanka films centered on the works of Lester James and Sumitra Peries. December 9-26 with English subtitles. THE LINE OF DESTINY Director: Lester James Peries Cast: Somapala Dharmapriya, Iranganie Meedeniya 1956 / 35mm/ BW / 89 min./ Sri Lanka / English subtitles STORY: A traveling artist enters a village and declares that he can cure people. When he touches and cures a villager who cannot see, the artist suddenly becomes famous. However, when he fails to cure someone, he becomes a village outcast…L.J. Peries’ first film and a masterpiece in Sri Lanka Cinema. THE AGE OF KALI Director: Lester James Peries Cast: Henry Jayasena, Punya Heedeniya 1982 / 35mm/ Color / 85 min./ Sri Lanka / English subtitles STORY: A couple move to Colombo from the countryside. They receive a letter from their son in London, who married against their wishes that his wife has died. A film depicting a crisis in a bourgeois class family. THE ELDEST DAUGHTER Director: Sumitra Peries Cast: Gamini Fonseka, Geetha Kumarasinghe 1993 / 35mm/ Color / 150 min./ Sri Lanka / English subtitles STORY: The eldest daughter meets a young man who proposes marriage to her but he turns out to have a forked tongue. The daughter goes through much misfortune in life and even becomes a mistress to another. A film about a woman sacrificing much for the sake of her family… WHERE THE SUN SETS Director: Lester James Peries Cast: Joe Abeyawickrema, Irangani Serasinghe 1994 / 35mm/ Color / 170 min./ Sri Lanka / English subtitles STORY: Through hard work, a man succeeds as an entrepreneur. Yet his son leaves the house, having fallen in love with the daughter of one of his father’s adversaries. His eldest daughter marries a man who comes to work for her father but the father fears his property will be taken away from him. A film depicting the disintegration of a family… MOTHER ALONE Director: Sumitra Peries Cast: Sangeetha Weeraratne, Tony Ranasinghe 1997 / 35mm/ Color / 127 min./ Sri Lanka / English subtitles STORY: Set in the 1940s. A girl doesn’t like the man his father chose for her husband and instead, ends up carrying the child of another man. Fearing a scandal, the family moves the daughter to live with her aunt in the countryside…This film does not address social issues but takes up the theme of a woman in the process of reaching maturity. MANSION BY THE LAKE Director: Lester James Peries Cast: Malini Fonsenka, Ravindra Randenjya 2002 / 35mm/ Color / 124 min./ Sri Lanka / English subtitles STORY: A woman who has lost her husband and son returns to Sri Lanka from England after learning that a bank will auction off her mansion. She fears this will damage the family name but no one comes to her rescue. A portrayal of a woman of wealth being abandoned by all as her family disintegrates… THE GARDEN Director: Sumitra Peries Cast: Sanath Gunatilaka, Kanchana Mendis 2003 / 35mm/ Color / 111 min./ Sri Lanka / English subtitles STORY: Tissa, a single high ranked government official is attracted to a daughter of one of his relatives. They marry but soon, Tissa’s younger brother returns from Moscow and causes a rift between Tissa and his wife due to their age difference… ELEGY FOR A MOTHER Director: Lester James Peries Cast: Malini Fonsenka, Pradeep Dharmadasa 2006 / 35mm/ Color / 96 min./ Sri Lanka / English subtitles STORY: The eldest son of a widow has joined the church and her daughter elopes with a shaman. Her unemployed younger son joins the army and asks her sister to watch over their mother, but the sister disappears after getting into a fight with her husband. The eldest son finds he can’t take time off from his church work to care for his mother….A film that beautifully depicts the relationship of a mother and her 3 children from a Buddhist point of view…. AUGUST SUN Director: Prasanna Vithanage Cast: Peter D’Almedia, Nimmi Harsgama 2003 / 35mm/ Color / 108 min./ Sri Lanka / English subtitles STORY: A film made of 3 stories. 1. August, 1996. A soldier on his way home stops at a brothel to learn that sister works there. 2. A wife of an army pilot who is missing, asks a journalist with anti-government terrorist ties to search for her husband. 3. Terrorists suddenly order a store owner in a small village to leave. AGAINST THE TIDE Director: Sudath Devapriya Cast: Mauli Ferdinando, Chandani Senaviratne 2003 / 35mm/ Color / 103 min./ Sri Lanka / English subtitles STORY: The father of a 9 year-old boy is a ferryman who one day ferries a group armed men to an island. The father then ferries government soldiers to the island who are after the armed men. The father never returns…A depiction of Sri Lanka’s civil war through the eyes of a child. FIRE FIGHTERS Director: Somaratne Dissanayake Cast: Jackson Anthony, Jayalath Monoratne 2004 / 35mm/ Color / 117 min./ Sri Lanka / English subtitles STORY: Set in English held Sri Lanka in the 19th Century. One day a monk and his disciple start to live in a mountain where a man has been hunting illegally. The man tries to drive the monk and his disciple out of the mountain but has his gun taken away. He then is forced to listen to a sermon against killing. The film, which depicts concepts of Buddhist Sri Lanka, was a big hit in the country. WITH YOU, WITHOUT YOU Director: Prasanna Vithanage Cast: Shyam Fernando, Anjali Patil 2012/ Digital / Color / 90min./ Sri Lanka & India / English subtitles STORY: The owner of a pawn shop starts to fancy a woman who frequently comes to pawn her articles. Learning that she is being forced to marry a man against her will, the owner proposes to her and they marry. However, their relationship is impacted by the civil war between the Sinhalese and the Tamils. THEATER SCHEDLE-DECEMBER 2015 Admission: Adults ¥500 University/College/High School ¥400 Junior High/Elementary School ¥300 “Wa No Kai” members ¥250. Identification required for discounts. Library closes December 1, 7, 14, 21, Theater also closes December 8, 15, 22, 27 ACTION FILLED ADVENTURE WITH YASUAKI KURATA Dec 2-6 No Subtitles 2 Wed 14:00 Final Fight Saigo No Ichigeki 3 Thu 11:00 Yellow Dragon 14:00 Red Tears 4 Fri 11:00 Tatakae! Dragon Vol.1 14:00 Tatakae! Dragon Vol.2 5 Sat 11:00 Final Fight Saigo No Ichigeki 14:00 Yellow Dragon 16:30 Red Tears 6 Sun 11:00 Tatakae! Dragon Vol.1 14:00 Tatakae! Dragon Vol.2 SRI LANKA FILMS CENTERED ON LESTER JAMES AND SUMITRA PERIES DEC. 9-26 With English subtitles 9 Wed 14:00 The Line of Destiny 10 Thu 11:00 The Age of Kali 14:00 Where the Sun Sets 11 Fri 11:00 Mother Alone 14:00 The Eldest Daughter 12 Sat 11:00 The Garden 14:00 Mansion by the Lake 13 Sun 11:00 Against the Tide 14:00 Elegy for a Mother 16 Wed 14:00 August Sun 17 Thu 11:00 Fire Fighters 14:00 With You, Without You 18 Fri 11:00 Mansion by the Lake 14:00 The Garden 19 Sat 11:00 The Line of Destiny 14:00 The Age of Kali 20 Sun 11:00 Mother Alone 14:00 Where the Sun Sets 23 Mon 11:00 August Sun 14:00 The Eldest Daughter 24 Thu 14:00 Elegy for a Mother 25 Fri 14:00 Against the Tide 26 Sat 11:00 With You, Without You 14:00 Fire Fighters PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LIBRARY AND THE THEATER WILL BE CLOSED FROM DECEMBER 28-JANUARY 4 (2016) FOR THE NEW YEAR HOLIDAY.